You and Your Sponsor Are Not a Great Match: What to Do Next Everyone who is in recovery from a substance use disorder—or who loves someone who is in recovery—knows that there are tricky moments that must be managed from time to time. We have weighed in on some of...
Wouldn’t it be great if you knew that completing treatment for a substance use disorder meant that you would never be tempted to use drugs or alcohol again? Unfortunately, that happy idea does not conform with reality. The fact is that any number of things can...
Imagine you are on a staircase and there is no exit door at the nearest landing. You have to decide whether you are going to go up or down, right? Well, let’s say you start climbing up. And up. And up some more. You keep getting higher but you still can’t find a way...
You have likely been in a situation in which someone—maybe it was you—was telling a story that seemed to fall flat. We have all had the experience at one time or another. People did not laugh at the parts you thought were funny, or they were not outraged by the things...
Recently, the New York Times ran a piece entitled “Future Cringe.” Here’s the setup for the piece, which appeared under George Gurley’s byline: What are the things we do today that will seem embarrassing or otherwise regrettable to our future selves — the stuff that...
Residential treatment for a substance use disorder is—almost by definition—a life-changing experience. While in treatment, you have regained your sobriety, learned strategies and gained resources for maintaining your sobriety, and started to think about returning to...
